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| Erin Heffernan / St. Louis Post-Dispatch: |
Uber, Lyft suspend driver who secretly live-streamed hundreds of rides on Twitch, after initially keeping him on and saying he did not violate Missouri law — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published Friday night. It was updated 9:30 p.m. Saturday with a statement from Uber saying …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat to discontinue Snapcash, its peer-to-peer payment feature, on August 30; the feature was created in partnership with Square in 2014 — Snapcash ended up a way to pay adult performers for private content over Snapchat, not just a way to pay your friends.
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| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of China's BOE, which supplies LCD screens for MacBooks and iPads and, sources say, wants to supply OLED displays for Apple from 2020 — If BOE succeeds, it would not only prove its manufacturing prowess but also score a win for China in its tech race against South Korea and Japan
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| Eric Feng: |
Overview of the iPhone-fueled “golden age” of tech startups from 2009-2012, how FAANG firms succeeded in its aftermath, and why B2C startups still have a chance — Ten years ago this month on July 10, 2008, Apple first unveiled the App Store and kicked off one of the greatest periods …
Tweets: @gaurav1105, @joshelman, @sriramk, @nikitabier, and @howardlindzon
| Richard Chirgwin / The Register: |
Intel fixes longstanding flaws in Intel Management Engine that let hackers on same subnet run code on targeted PC; no patches for first three gens of Core chips — Check your computer makers for patches — In case you missed it, Chipzilla has gone public with more security updates for the Intel Management Engine.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Swim.ai, a startup bringing real-time analytics to IoT, raises $10M Series B led by Cambridge Innovation Capital with strategic investment from ARM — Once upon a time, it looked like cloud-based serviced would become the central hub for analyzing all IoT data.
Tweets: @krishnan
| Lucinda Southern / Digiday: |
UK media firm Future plc, owner of 100+ brands including TechRadar and PC Gamer, to buy Purch, owner of AnandTech, Laptop Mag, and Tom's Hardware, for $132.5M — This week U.K. specialist publisher Future announced the purchase of technology platform and publisher Purch for $132.5 million … | Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: |
Facebook could recognize Holocaust denialism as hate speech and ban it on those grounds, but trying to censor every falsehood should be noted as a bad idea — To follow Mark Zuckerberg's utterances is to constantly cringe. — Last week was no different.
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Business Insider. Tweets: @sulliview, @craigsilverman, @jason_kint, @chrisinsilico, @techmeme, and @jameeljaffer
| Ben Collins / NBC News: |
After years of “crisis actor” smears, targets of Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists ask Facebook for crisis hotline and to allow their input on moderation policies — “It feels like Facebook is waiting for someone to die before something gets done," said Nelba Márquez-Greene, mother of a child killed in Sandy Hook.
Tweets: @garossino, @sublimechick2k, @jolingkent, and @karaswisher
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in August 2017, Google sent a letter suggesting changes to Android OEM contracts and apps distribution; offer was rebuffed by EU as too little too late — - Company offered to tweak Android contracts to placate EU — Vestager says the peace offering didn't come quickly enough
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Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Economist, and Financial Times
Tweets: @fredzannarbor, @suka_hiroaki, @aoifewhite101, and @business
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Baidu announces Totem Point token for users of its new Totem stock photo sharing service, which uses the company's blockchain for validating ownership of photos — Chinese internet search giant Baidu has launched a proprietary token to incentivize users of its new blockchain-based photo validating and sharing service.| David Floyd / CoinDesk: |
The amount of ether staked on Augur, a peer-to-peer protocol to create prediction markets from user-posed questions, grew to ~$1M and first bets paid out $20K — Augur, a decentralized platform for creating predictions markets, just hit a major milestone. — “The first markets …
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CoinFrenzy, Hacked, Ethereum World News, CoinDesk, and Bitsonline
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